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The Rickettsiales are a group of obligate intracellular vector-borne Gram-negative bacteria that include many organisms of clinical and agricultural importance, including Anaplasma spp., Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Wolbachia, Rickettsia spp. and Orientia tsutsugamushi. This Review provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of the biology of these bacteria and their interactions with host cells, with a focus on pathogenic species or those that are otherwise important for human health. This includes a description of rickettsial genomics, bacterial cell biology, the intracellular lifestyles of Rickettsiales and the mechanisms by which they induce and evade the innate immune response.

Original publication

DOI

10.1038/s41579-020-00507-2

Type

Journal article

Journal

Nature reviews. Microbiology

Publication Date

06/2021

Volume

19

Pages

375 - 390

Addresses

Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. jeanne.salje@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

Keywords

Humans, Phylogeny, Genome, Bacterial, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena, Rickettsiales